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WHEREAS in the quest for better health for our people it is important that we aid the attack on cancer by vigorously supporting the official agencies and voluntary groups engaged in research to increase our knowledge of cancer and in programs for the application of this knowledge to the end that the disease may be controlled and eventually eradicated; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1988 (52 Stat. 148), authorized and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1956 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States to issue similar proclamations. I also urge the medical profession, the press, the radio, television, and motion-picture industries, and all interested agencies and individuals to unite during the appointed month in public dedication to programs for the control of cancer. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER,

Cancer Control Month, 1956.

Jr.,

Acting Secretary of State.

TERMINATING IN PART THE ICELANDIC TRADE AGREEMENT PROCLAMATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION N O. 3105 or JULY 22,

1955 March 16, 1956 [No. 3128]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, under authority of section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, the President on August 27, 1943, entered into a trade agreement with the Regent of Iceland, including two schedules annexed thereto (57 Stat. 1078), and by proclamation of September 30, 1943 (57 Stat. 1075), he proclaimed the said trade agreement, which proclamation has been supplemented by proclamation of October 22, 1943 (57 Stat. 1098); 2. WHEREAS item 718 (b) of Schedule II of the said trade agreement reads as follows: "United States Tariff Act of 1930 paragraph

"718 (b)

Description of Article

Fish, prepared or preserved in any manner, when packed in air-tight containers weighing with their contents not more than fifteen pounds each (except fish packed in oil or in oil and other substances): "Any of the foregoing (except herring, smoked or kippered or in to m a to sauce, packed in immediate containers weighing with their contents more than one pound each, and except salmon and anchovies)